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EInstein's Big Split
- 1. Einstein’s Big SplitBy Christiana Jenkins
- 2. There was oncea little boy named Albert.
- 3. He was thesmartest boy in the whole world.
- 4. One day, Albertwas working on a very important formula, but he just could not figure it out, so he decided to find something to eat.
- 5. While he waslooking around the house for something to eat, he decided that he wanted to make a banana split.
- 6. But he didnot have anything in his refrigerator to make a banana split with. So he decided to call some of his friends to bring some ingredients.
- 7. The first personhe called was his friend Michael Faraday.
- 8. When Albert toldMichael about how he wanted to make a banana split, Michael told him that he would bring over some bananas.
- 9. When Michael broughtover the bananas, Michael told Albert that the bananas that he brought were full of energy, and that with this fact he could prove a connection between magnetism and electricity.
- 10. Albert found thatvery interesting so he wrote down an E on his formula sheet and called it energy.E=energy
- 11. The next personAlbert called was his friend Lavoisier.
- 12. Lavoisier decided tobring some whipped cream that he said would never lose its amount of mass even if you melt it to a pulp, the mass of the cream never changed.
- 13. Albert also foundthat interesting so he wrote an M next to the E on the paper and called the M mass. M=mass
- 14. While trying tostart the split they realized that they did not have one thing that could connect the bananas to the whipped cream or the energy to the mass.
- 15. So they decidedto call Ole Roemer.
- 16. Roemer told themthat he would bring the ice cream that could connect all of the whipped cream to all of the bananas in the entire universe.
- 17. When Roemer broughtthe ice cream, Albert saw how it connected the other ingredients he wrote a C on the paper to represent speed of light. C=Speed of light
- 18. As the groupof friends got ready to dive into the split, they noticed that there were not any sprinkles or cherries on top.
- 19. So they calledtheir other two friends Emilie Du Chatalet, who brought the cherries and Robert Recorde who brought the sprinkles.
- 20. Seeing how thesprinkles showed how the banana split was interchangeable, Albert wrote an equal sign in between the E and the M. E = M
- 21. Albert also sawhow the cherries was the finishing touch that increased the entire taste of the whole banana split so he wrote an exponent of 2 above the C and called it squared. C 2
- 22. After Albert andhis friends finished their banana split, they looked at the paper that Albert had wrote on.
- 23. They saw aformula that read E=mc2, when they read it they realized that the formula that Albert made from their banana split ingredients made a formula that would change the world. E=MC2
- 24. Years after Albert’sincredible formula was invented many physicists began to study it and use it for different purposes.
- 25. One of thosepeople was the physicist Lise Meitner.
- 26. Meitner studied radioactivityand nuclear physics.
- 27. Lisa Meitner isfamous for the discovery of nuclear fission.
- 28. Meitner was ableto achieve the discovery of nuclear fission by using the formula that Einstein came up with. E=MC2
- 29. E=MC2Not only arephysicists taking advantage of Einstein’s formula.
- 30. But hospitals areusing the formula too.
- 31. They use theformula for many different technological inventions.
- 32.
- 33. PET scans usea radioactive substance that illuminates the body.
- 34. This allows thedoctors to look at an x-ray type picture of your body.
- 35. To find outif something does not look right on the inside.
- 36. Another study iskinesthetics.
- 37. Which is thestudy of motion.
- 38. Even though Einstein’sformula only involves mass at rest, people who study kinethetics saw that the formula also took into account the mass as it is in motion.
- 39. Einstein’s formula alsohelps us understand how light works.
- 40. Along with energyand mass. Energy and Mass